Save appetite for seventh annual 'Buffalo's Best Pierogi Contest'

by jmaloni

Submitted

Fri, Aug 1st 2014 08:05 pm

Event
celebrates Buffalo's passion for pierogi

Corpus
Christi Church is once again looking for Buffalo's best pierogi. This historic
east side church is hosting its seventh annual "Buffalo's Best Pierogi" contest
Saturday, Aug. 16, at 4:30 p.m. The contest is open to all amateur cooks and
businesses.

The
contest is the centerpiece of Corpus Christi's Corpus Christi's 35th annual Dożynki (pronounced
Do-ZHIN-kee) Polish Harvest Festival Aug. 15-17. Christopher Byrd, the contest
organizer, said the event "captures Buffalo's love for food ... while celebrating
our city's rich ethnic heritage with recipes and traditions passed on from one generation
to the next. The contest draws people from all of Western New York.
Buffalonians have incredible passion for their pierogi."

People
who wish to enter the contest can register online by visiting the church's
website www.CorpusChristiBuffalo.org
or by calling the rectory at 716-896-1050. The deadline for entries is
Wednesday, Aug. 13.

Applicants
will be judged in one of four following categories:

•Homemade traditional: boiled or fried pierogi filled with cheese,
cheese/potato or kapusta (pickled or fresh cabbage) with or without mushrooms,
carrots, etc.

•Homemade non-traditional: open to entrant's creativity, keeping in mind a
pierogi is a stuffed pocket of dough.

•Commercial: open to any business using a traditional recipe.

•Desert: pierogi made as a desert open to entrant's
creativity.

A
group of celebrity judges will determine the winners for the contest. Winners
in each category will walk away with the title of "Buffalo's Best Pierogi
Maker."

Corpus
Christi Church was founded in 1898 and is located in the heart of East
Buffalo's historic Polonia. It is on the state and national lists of historic
sites.